Hand-weeder.



- Patented Oct. y3,. |899. S. FULLER.

HAND wEEnER.

(Application led. Dec. 28, 1898.) (No Model.)

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SOLOMONLFULLER, OF DANVERS, MASSACHUSETTS.

HAN D-WEEDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,409, dated October 3, 1899.

Application filed December 23, 1898. Serial No. 700,188. (No model To all whom, t may concer/t:

Beit known thatLSoLoMoN FULLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Danvers, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Hand-Weeders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in hand-weeders; and it is carried out as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure l represents a perspective view of the invention. Fig. 2 represents a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 represents a central longitudinal section on the line 3 3 shown in Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 represents a cross-section on the line 4 4 shown in Fig. 2.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

In the drawings, A represents a handle to which is secured a metal shank B, to the forward end of which is secured the cutter-blade C, which is made skeleton form of a rectanguiar or nearly so cross-section, as shown, said cutter-blade having beveled cutting edges on its circumference at its front and rear portions, as shown, respectively, atO and O. As shown, the ends of the shank B are forked and the ends of the cutterlblade C are riveted thereto. The rear end of the trowel D is disposed between the forked ends of the shank and is riveted thereto bythe same rivets that attach the cutter-blade to said shank. As shown, the vcutter-blade is made of a single piece of wrought-steel, having a bottom part O, upright side parts C3 and O4,

and top parts G5, which are approximately parallel with the bottom part C, and the entire blade from one end to the other is sharpened on both opposite edges. As shown most clearly in Fig. 3, the shank B is bent at a right angle intermediate of its ends, whereby the handle is raised above the plane of the implement, thereby preventing the operators hand from coming in contact with the soil.

In practice I prefer to make the cutterblade somewhat narrower at one end, as shown at C3 in Fig. 4, as compared with the opposite end O4, so as to permit such narrow end to be used in weeding plants that may be in close proximity7 to each other.

It will be noticed that bythe skeleton form of the cutter-blade I am enabled to use either the elongated bottom portion or under side or the end portions for weeding purposes, according to the nature or location of the plants that are to be weeded.

By having the cutter-blade provided with beveled cutting edges both at .the front and rear the weeding-tool may be used in two directions-namely, by pushing and pulling, as circumstances may require.

In practice I prefer to secure to the upper part of the hand-weeder and its shank a forwardly-projecting trowel D, as shown, which may be used for digging purposes in setting out plants or for other similar purposes, thus combining in one and the same tool a-weeder and a trowel by which the utility and efliciency of the tool are materially increased.

What I wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim isl. In a hand weeding implement, the combination with a suitable handle, of a fiat blade bentI into approximately rectangular shape and attached at its ends to said handle, said blade having opposite cutting edges formed throughout its length, substantially as de= scribed.

2. In a hand weeding implement, the coinbination with a suitable handle, of a flat blade bent into trapezoidal shape, whereby the iinplement is made wider at one endthan at the other, and attached at its ends to said handle, said blade having opposite cutting edges formed throughout its length, substantially as described.

3. In a hand weeding implement, the corn= bination with ametallic shank forked at one end and bent at a right angle intermediate of its ends, of a dat blade bent into trapezoidal shape and attached at its ends to the forked ends of the shank, and a trowel riveted be tween said forked ends, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have'hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SOLOMON FULLER.

Witnesses:

ALBAN ANDREN, KARL A. ANDREN. 

